Chapter 42 · Volume 1

Pill Refining

The third ten-draw had ended.
Yun Heng scanned through them from start to finish, her mood finally perking up.
Although there were still no high-grade Three-Star or Four-Star cards, the impact of one hundred Grade Two Refiners was by no means small.
Xuan Zheng was a Grade Ten Refiner.
With his refining grade, whether it was repairing the Tianheng Broken Sword or forging high-grade artifacts, he could do it with ease.
However, a clan could not function on just a few high-grade artifacts alone.
As more and more people entered the shattered realm in the future, the demand for storage artifacts, communication artifacts, and array tools would only increase.
If all these had to be forged by Xuan Zheng, no matter how many copies of him existed, it wouldn't be enough.
Now that she had one hundred Grade Two Refiners, things were different.
These people could learn artifact refining under Xuan Zheng while also processing common refining materials.
Anything that didn't require Xuan Zheng's personal intervention could be handed entirely to them.
As for the five Golden Armored Guard cards after that, they totaled one hundred men.
Combined with the five squads of Golden Armored Guards she had drawn previously, the Tianheng shattered realm now possessed a full two hundred Golden Armored Guards.
The greater their numbers, the greater the power they could unleash.
Yun Heng stowed away all the Character Cards from her third ten-draw.
She glanced up at the top right corner.
【Current Awe Points: 1,500.】
She could perform one final ten-draw. After drawing, she would have merely six hundred Awe Points left.
Yun Heng placed her hand back onto the button.
“Continue.”
【Consume 900 Awe Points to perform a ten-draw?】
“Draw.”
【Awe Points deducted.】
【Current Awe Points: 600.】
Yun Heng stared intently at the System panel.
A moment later, the first card flipped over.
【Three-Star Building Card: Large Alchemy Room.】
【Contains multiple alchemy chambers equipped with basic fire control and spirit-gathering arrays, allowing multiple alchemists to refine pills simultaneously.】
The anticipation in Yun Heng's eyes grew even stronger.
【Three-Star Building Card: Large Refining Workshop.】
【Contains multiple refining furnaces, quenching platforms, and material processing areas, allowing multiple refiners to forge artifacts simultaneously.】
It matched perfectly with the one hundred refiners she had just drawn.
【Four-Star Character Card: Alchemist Xuan Heng.】
【Cultivation: Late-stage Nascent Soul.】
【Grade: Grade Ten Alchemist.】
【Proficient in pill formula deduction and high-grade pill refining, capable of identifying and processing various high-grade spirit herbs.】
Yun Heng sat up straight.
A Grade Ten Alchemist? And a Four-Star Character Card at that.
Before she could examine Xuan Heng's card in detail, the fourth beam of light descended.
【Two-Star Item Card: 200 Crates of Common Alchemy Materials.】
【Contains common spirit herbs, auxiliary alchemy materials, and low-grade alchemy fire materials, suitable for refining pills commonly used by the clan.】
【Two-Star Item Card: 200 Crates of Common Alchemy Materials.】
【Two-Star Character Card: 20 Grade Two Alchemists.】
【Possesses basic alchemy techniques, able to independently refine common low-grade pills and assist high-grade alchemists in processing medicinal herbs.】
【Two-Star Character Card: 20 Grade Two Alchemists.】
【Two-Star Character Card: 20 Grade Two Alchemists.】
【Two-Star Character Card: 20 Grade Two Alchemists.】
【Two-Star Character Card: 20 Grade Two Alchemists.】
Yun Heng stared at the ten cards on the System screen, her lips curling into a grin bit by bit.
Alchemists! Excellent—she had already drawn quite a few spirit plants, spirit herbs, and seeds previously.
The shattered realm already had ten mu of Spirit Fields, plus the newly acquired one hundred mu of Ordinary Spirit Soil and another ten mu of Spirit Fields. The Dust-Cleansing Lotus, Purple Jade Ginseng, Frost Dew Grass, Crimson Sun Flower, and the one thousand crates of common spirit herb seeds drawn this time could all be cultivated inside the realm.
Now, she would certainly be in no shortage of pills.
Xuan Heng could be responsible for high-grade pills and pill formulas.
The ordinary alchemists could handle the low-grade pills used daily by clan members.
Spirit-Replenishing Pills, Healing Pills, Inedia Pills, and various common pills for assisting cultivation could all be gradually mass-produced for the clan.
What satisfied Yun Heng even more was that this pull yielded both a Large Alchemy Room and a Large Refining Workshop.
Just a moment ago, she had been thinking that after the one hundred refiners entered the shattered realm, they couldn't all crowd outside the temporary storeroom to forge artifacts.
Now, a refining workshop was provided directly.
Xuan Zheng could lead the Grade Two Refiners into the refining workshop to separate and process the ordinary materials and high-grade spiritual materials in the storeroom.
Likewise, the alchemists had a dedicated alchemy room.
Whether for alchemy or artifact refining, there were finally proper places for both.
The more Yun Heng thought about it, the happier she became. She had initially disdained the low grades of the first two ten-draws, but looking back now, how could that have been bad luck?
These four ten-draws were clearly building up the most essential production and daily life infrastructure for a clan from the ground up.
Although most of these items were low in grade, they allowed the Tianheng shattered realm to truly begin functioning as a whole.
Yun Heng stowed away all the cards and, with a shift of her mind, entered the shattered realm within the Tianheng Jade.
The scenery before her eyes shifted rapidly.
When she opened her eyes again, she was already standing before the main hall of the shattered realm.
The moment Yun Heng appeared, everyone in the shattered realm sensed her arrival. Those who had been busy across various areas paused their tasks and rushed over from all directions.
Yun Che and Xuan Zheng walked at the very front, with Xuan Yi through Xuan Shi following close behind, while the Green-Clad Attendants and Golden Armored Guards gathered neatly at the rear.
Reaching Yun Heng, everyone dropped to one knee in unison.
“Greetings, Young Lord!”
Hundreds of voices rang out simultaneously, echoing through the shattered realm for a long time.
Had it been at the very beginning, facing such a scene would likely have made Yun Heng feel somewhat awkward.
However, having experienced this so many times, she could now remain completely unphased.
“Rise.”
“Thank you, Young Lord.”
Everyone responded in unison before standing up.
Yun Che stepped forward and bowed respectfully with cupped hands.
“Young Lord, during the time you were away, the Green-Clad Attendants planted all the spirit plants and spirit herb seeds from the storeroom into the Spirit Fields, and dedicated caretakers tend to them daily.”
“Xuan Yi through Xuan Shi have also been leading the Golden Armored Guards in training. Now, a small portion of the Golden Armored Guards have successfully broken through to the early stage of Nascent Soul.”
Hearing this, Yun Heng couldn't help but look toward the Golden Armored Guards at the back.
The Golden Armored Guards stood tall and straight in rank. Compared to before, their aura was visibly more condensed, and the spiritual energy fluctuations faintly emanating from several of them had indeed reached early Nascent Soul.
It seemed that the characters drawn from the System did not have permanently fixed cultivation levels. So long as they cultivated normally, they could likewise break through realms—which was undoubtedly great news for Yun Heng.

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